Generative AI Jobs in the South East

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Generative AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Generative AI over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 313 402
Rank change year-on-year +229 +89 -
Permanent jobs citing Generative AI 299 87 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.14% 0.50% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 0.60% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £75,500 - -
25th Percentile £88,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% - -
75th Percentile £127,500 - -
90th Percentile £137,000 - -
England median annual salary £85,000 £79,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +7.59% -7.06% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Generative AI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,777 14,553 13,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.07% 83.59% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,223 10,031 7,752
10th Percentile £29,300 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,928 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Generative AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Generative AI in the South East

Generative AI
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Generative AI in the South East.

Salary trend for Generative AI in the South East

Generative AI
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in the South East over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Generative AI in the South East

Generative AI
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Generative AI within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +181 178 £100,000 - 19
Buckinghamshire - 135 - - 2
East Sussex - 106 £135,000 - 1
Berkshire - 39 £105,000 - 12
Middlesex - 14 - -
Oxfordshire +39 4 £75,000 - 9
Surrey - 1 - - 6
Generative AI
England

Generative AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.67%) Apache
1 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (5.02%) Vertex AI
2 14 (4.68%) Salsify
3 8 (2.68%) Azure
4 7 (2.34%) AWS
5 6 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (2.01%) GCP
6 1 (0.33%) Algolia
6 1 (0.33%) Amplience
6 1 (0.33%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.33%) Bloomreach
6 1 (0.33%) Cloudinary
6 1 (0.33%) Commercetools
6 1 (0.33%) Contentful
6 1 (0.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.02%) Data Mining
2 14 (4.68%) Metadata
3 3 (1.00%) Pinecone
3 3 (1.00%) Weaviate
4 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.33%) MySQL
5 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Git
2 4 (1.34%) Vite
2 4 (1.34%) webpack
3 3 (1.00%) MLflow
4 2 (0.67%) Babel
4 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.33%) JIRA
General
1 264 (88.29%) Retail
2 240 (80.27%) Manufacturing
3 64 (21.40%) Dutch Language
3 64 (21.40%) Finnish Language
3 64 (21.40%) Norwegian Language
4 49 (16.39%) Law
5 48 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (12.37%) Social Skills
7 20 (6.69%) Legal
8 16 (5.35%) Catalan Language
9 15 (5.02%) Finance
10 14 (4.68%) Marketing
11 7 (2.34%) Games
12 2 (0.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 240 (80.27%) Trainer
2 42 (14.05%) Senior
3 20 (6.69%) Senior Manager
4 19 (6.35%) Lead
5 11 (3.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 10 (3.34%) Gen AI Engineer
7 8 (2.68%) Gen AI Software Engineer
7 8 (2.68%) Software Engineer
8 3 (1.00%) Developer
8 3 (1.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 3 (1.00%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 2 (0.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 2 (0.67%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
9 2 (0.67%) Gen AI Developer
9 2 (0.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 2 (0.67%) Principal Software Engineer
9 2 (0.67%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (0.67%) Software Developer
9 2 (0.67%) UI Engineer
9 2 (0.67%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.01%) PyTorch
1 9 (3.01%) TensorFlow
2 6 (2.01%) Hugging Face
2 6 (2.01%) LangChain
2 6 (2.01%) React
3 5 (1.67%) REST
4 3 (1.00%) CSS
4 3 (1.00%) CSS3
4 3 (1.00%) Enzyme
4 3 (1.00%) HTML
4 3 (1.00%) HTML5
4 3 (1.00%) Jest
4 3 (1.00%) Kafka
4 3 (1.00%) Next.js
4 3 (1.00%) RESTful
4 3 (1.00%) scikit-learn
5 2 (0.67%) MobX
5 2 (0.67%) Redux
5 2 (0.67%) Svelte
5 2 (0.67%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 240 (80.27%) Robotics
2 23 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 14 (4.68%) Management Information System
3 14 (4.68%) Taxonomies
4 7 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.34%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.67%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.67%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.33%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (99.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 276 (92.31%) LLM
2 276 (92.31%) Machine Learning
3 274 (91.64%) Problem-Solving
4 240 (80.27%) Red Team
5 196 (65.55%) Data Privacy
6 35 (11.71%) Agile
6 35 (11.71%) Roadmaps
6 35 (11.71%) Strategic Thinking
7 33 (11.04%) MLOps
8 32 (10.70%) Analytics
9 23 (7.69%) Data Science
10 22 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (7.02%) Incident Management
12 20 (6.69%) Change Management
12 20 (6.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 20 (6.69%) Use Case
13 18 (6.02%) DevOps
14 17 (5.69%) Natural Language Processing
15 16 (5.35%) Chemistry
Programming Languages
1 17 (5.69%) Python
2 9 (3.01%) Go
3 6 (2.01%) TypeScript
4 5 (1.67%) Java
4 5 (1.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.34%) Clojure
5 4 (1.34%) Elixir
5 4 (1.34%) Rust
5 4 (1.34%) Scala
6 3 (1.00%) C++
6 3 (1.00%) R
7 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 255 (85.28%) Degree
2 13 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.68%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.33%) CBAP
5 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.33%) PhD
5 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.02%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.68%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (1.34%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.34%) Grafana
2 7 (2.34%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 255 (85.28%) Google
2 240 (80.27%) Adobe
2 240 (80.27%) Databricks
3 22 (7.36%) OpenAI
4 15 (5.02%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.33%) Adyen